Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!xmission!nnrp.xmission!.POSTED.shell.xmission.com!not-for-mail From: gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 05:19:02 -0000 (UTC) Organization: The official candy of the new Millennium Message-ID: References: <87msfc7tgq.fsf@gmail.com> Injection-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 05:19:02 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.xmission.com; posting-host="shell.xmission.com:166.70.8.4"; logging-data="3673113"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@xmission.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) Bytes: 1438 Lines: 15 In article <87msfc7tgq.fsf@gmail.com>, Alexis wrote: >Lawrence D'Oliveiro writes: > >> On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 14:49:16 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote: >> >>> To my best knowledge using '/' as part of a file or directory name is >>> (as the '\0') prohibited by the operating system at a very low level. >> >> But you can use in a file/directory name. > >Not in a POSIX-conforming way: Do you know what LDO meant by the above-quoted line noise? -- I love the poorly educated.